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Reunion Tower’s long-shuttered observation deck to reopen as GeO-Deck on October 5

Note the city of Dallas map embedded in the carpet of the new Reunion Tower observation deck.

If you haven’t seen the banners that were hung around Dallas in recent days, this will come as breaking news to you: Six years after the doors were closed to the public, Reunion Tower’s observation deck will reopen October 5.

Pardon — make that Reunion Tower’s GeO-Deck.

Clearly, something as high-tech and “world class” as the made-over deck deserves a fancy moniker to go along with all the high-def “zoom cameras,” interactive digital touchscreen displays and other goodies, gadgets and gewgaws expected to transform the space upon its reintroduction. And, as we mentioned in May, the deck will have a new eatery as well: Wolfgang Puck’s Cloud Nine, which will serve lunch beneath a “digital canopy that displays a stylized Texas sky,” per the release.

But if you want to visit, be prepared for a virtual line: You’ll need tickets to get to the GeO-Deck. And they won’t become available until October 1. And when they do they’ll be first-come, first-served basis at a price that won’t be made public until the site goes live in three weeks.

Until then I recommend you watch my extraordinarily mediocre recording of a very good video showing off the new deck below. And below that is a video guaranteed to make you very, very, very dizzy.

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